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The Management Trends: The Right Management Style
Know your Management Style Now! Ever wondered how you perform as a manager or supervisor? Have you tried assessing yourself and determining what have been your practices, behavior or characteristics that either enable or hinder you from doing your responsibilities smoothly? Have you asked the people around you how they see you? In the growing… Read More
A Reflection: Do we need Leaders or Managers?
A Leader vs. Manager Discourse It is easy to spend some time discussing the difference between managers and leaders, my delegates usually have very strong opinions. They are not the only ones! This topic has provoked a lot of debate amongst academics and consultants and many books have been written on the subject… Here is… Read More
Leadership for Administrative Leaders
Are you Leadership Material? I often ask people what they believe is the first step required in order to gain a leadership role. I receive answers such as, work hard; know the right people, education. We can wait for time, chance, or other people to open the door of opportunity for us. However, someone with… Read More
Practical Business Planning
Developing and Delivering and Effective Business Plan “To fail to plan is to plan to fail” – Benjamin Franklin, 1750 “No plan survives first contact with the enemy” – General Helmuth Von Moltke – Prussian General Staff, 1871 “Plans are nothing – Planning is everything” – President Dwight D Eisenhower, 1957 Business planning has gained… Read More
Leading the Way: Defining Strategy
Understanding the External Environment in Devising a Strategy How much time should organisations devote to strategy? How effectively can one operate without having a clear destination and purpose? Just the other day, there was a debate led by the BBC’s In Business correspondent, Tanya Beckett, about the time managers spend in meetings. This raised the… Read More
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